All Summer in a Day

By Ray BradburyWeek 126th class

The plan….• Objectives• Review– Vocabulary

• Author’s Purpose• Setting• Simile vs. Metaphor• Background Information for All Summer in

a Day• About the Author: Ray Bradbury• Evaluation• Preview

Objectives• Students will recognize details that

indicate author’s purpose

• Students will utilize background information to determine author’s purpose

Pleading Fumbling

suspended

Frail

immense

drenched

Author’s purpose• An author’s purpose is his/her main reason for

writing.• The author’s purpose influences what the

author says and how he or she says it.Author’s purpose Clues

To persuade Strong language, favors one side of an issue

To entertain Silly, humorous, suspenseful, exciting details

To inform Facts and detailsTo reflect on an experience Descriptions, comments by

the writer.

• A description of a character, place, or event may contain details that reveal the author’s purpose.

• Fiction writers may write for variety of purposes they may wish to entertain, to teach, to call to action, or to reflect on experiences.

EntertainFunny details or details

that create interestTeach

explanation

Reflect

Details that create a mood

• Recognizing details that indicate the author’s purpose can give you a rich understanding of a text.

Literary Analysis• The Setting:

• The setting of a story is the time and place of the action.

• In some stories, setting is just a backdrop. The same story events could take place in a completely different place

• In other stories, setting is very important. It develops a specific atmosphere or mood in the story. The setting may even relate directly to the story’s central conflict or problem

NOTES: • Simile – is a comparison between two unlike

things using the words “like” or “as”

• Metaphor – is a comparison between two unlike things where one is said to be the other

Background• Venus “ All Summer in a Day” is

set on Venus, the second planet from the sun. Today we learned that Venus has a surface temperature almost 900 degrees Fahrenheit.

• In 1950, when Ray Bradbury wrote this story, some scientist believed that the clouds of Venus concealed a watery world. That information may have led Bradbury to create a setting of soggy jungles with constant rain.

• In “ All Summer in a Day,” rain has fallen for seven years straight. Give three reasons to explain whether or not you could live in such a climate. Use at least three of the following words: Benefit, survive, require, adjust.

• There would probably be no benefit to living in such a rainy climate.

• It would be difficult to survive without the help of the sun, most plants require sunshine to grow.

• It would be difficult to adjust to staying indoors most of the time.

Ray Bradbury

• As a boy, Ray Bradbury loved magicians, circuses, and science-fiction stories.

• He began writing his own imaginative tales and by age seventeen had his first story published in a magazine called Imagination!

• A science-fiction wonder In 1950, Ray Bradbury won fame

for his science fiction stories called The Martian Chronicles. One story described how a group of earthlings struggled on rainy world of Venus. Bradbury began to wonder how a child might react to the sun’s brief appearance on Venus. Four years later, he answered his own question by writing “All Summer in a Day.”

“All Summer in a Day” by Ray BradburyReading Warm-up B

Venus is a fascinating planet. It is almost the same size as Earth. For that reason, scientists have called Venus the sister planet of Earth. For many years, astronomers, people who study planets and stars, thought that life might exist on Venus. They believed there were good reasons to predict that plants and animals might be found there. They even thought that a human civilization might exist on Venus. Contributing to that idea was the fact that a gigantic, dense cloud covers most of Venus’s surface. The planet cannot be easily seen, and for a long time scientists could not take a clear photograph of it. Today, scientists know that the climate of Venus is too hot to support life as we know it. Its cloud cover traps much of the heat the planet absorbs from the sun. The heat is suspended in place above the surface of the planet and is unable to move. Therefore, Venus has the hottest average temperature in our solar system.

1. Underline the words that tell what astronomers had reason to predict about Venus. Define predict.

2. Circle the word that tellswhat kind of civilization there might have been on Venus. What does civilization mean?

3. What is an antonym forgigantic? Define gigantic.

4. Underline the words that tell why scientists could not take a clear photograph of Venus. Use photograph in a sentence of your own.

5. Circle the words that tellwhat is suspended aboveVenus. What does it have todo with the high temp. on Venus?

“All Summer in a Day” by Ray BradburyReading Warm-up B

Venus is similar to Earth in many ways besides its size, however. It has mountains, valleys, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Scientists have noted formations from lava flows that must have drenched the planet’s surface at one time. They wonder whether those formations are the remembrance of a long-past time when Venus’s volcanoes erupted. The information we have today about Venus comes mainly from spacecraft. The vehicles have orbited the planet and inserted probes into its atmosphere. The probes send back a great deal of information. One probe mapped the complete surface of the planet. Another explored the materials that make up Venus’s surface. It also recorded the planet’s surface temperature. Venus is indeed a fascinating planet. There is still much on Venus to explore and discover.

6. Circle the words that tell what once drenched the planet’s surface. Define drenched.

7. Circle the words that tell what may be a remembrance of a past time on Venus. Use remembrance in a sentence.

8. Circle the word that tells what was inserted into Venus’s atmosphere. Use inserted in a sentence.

Evaluation• What is author’s purpose?• Who is the author of All Summer in a

Day?

Preview• Read All Summer in a Day and

answer comprehension questions

The End

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